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The FACTS team have been VITAL® trainers since 2013, and have provided allergen consulting and testing services to the South African food industry for almost 20 years. South Africa’s allergen regulations – which mandate precautionary allergen labelling – are among…

The Allergen Bureau is always looking for ways to support industry to ensure employees and employers have allergen knowledge and understanding of both why an Allergen Management Plan is critical in any food business, and how to develop one. Recently the Allergen…

The recent announcements of funding to address allergy and anaphylaxis shows both the significance of this health-related concern, and the dedication in our region to solving or providing outcomes that assist those impacted.  In Australia and New Zealand, we are incredibly…

In the world’s first known study of its kind, most adults diagnosed with food allergy were found to not follow the dietary advice they had been given by a health professional. Several underlying reasons were found, offering health professionals an…

Peanut-coated microneedles have been shown to offer better food allergen immunotherapy in early studies carried out on preclinical models. A microneedle device is worn like a band aid and delivers treatments directly through the skin barrier. As well as being…

Among children with food allergy, up to 40 per cent are allergic to multiple foods. While introducing potentially allergenic foods in early infancy has proven effective at preventing the development of food allergies in childhood, research shows this strategy is…